Dockers Marking Funeral of Protester Halt Work
United Press International
BALTIMORE —
About 16,000 longshoremen at 300 North American ports stopped work briefly Saturday in observance of the funeral of a union dockworker killed while protesting the use of non-union workers to unload a ship on the Baltimore docks, the president of the international union said.
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